[Haskell-cafe] Another analogy

[Jonathan Cast]

On Monday 23 July 2007, Hugh Perkins wrote:
> C would be an engine.  You have to add the wheels.  If you use anything but
> a 75.0% mix of gasoline to oil, it explodes.
>
> Fine you guys can have Haskell as the hovercraft, not one of those big ones
> mind,

How do you get that Haskell has to be small?  It seems a great big language to 
me.

> one of those Florida glades ones, like in Lassie, with one guy 
> sitting on it, weaving between the aligators.
>
> Java is a hot air balloon.  Kindof obvious really ;-)
>
> C# is the F1 ferrari.

Jonathan Cast
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